#gilded age america
December 1896
Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938)
Chromolithograph
The New York Public Library, Art & Architecture Collection
Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
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A Christmas Reminder
Udo J. Keppler (American; 1872–1956)
Centerfold illustration in: Puck, Vol. 50, No. 1294 (December 18, 1901)
Chromolithograph
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Caption
Puck(to Mr. Carnegie). — “Books are already so cheap and libraries so abundant that even the poorest man has all the literature he wants. Now, why not provide respectable homes for the people who are too old to work and who were never able to save anything from their scanty wages; — and so keep them from beggary, starvation or suicide?”
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Prang Christmas Card
1880–90s
Chromolithograph (publisher’s proof)
Publisher: L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
The New York Public Library, Print Collection
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